Another launch attempt for Starship #11 today
Screen capture from LabPadre Nerdle camera live stream,
taken at 10:27 am (Central).
UPDATE: Launch scrubbed because an FAA official was unable to get to the launch site today. Next attempt set for tomorrow.
Gee, launching rockets his hard. For government officials, however, getting on an airplane and arriving on time seems far more difficult.
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SpaceX is going to make another launch attempt today with its eleventh Starship prototype. The following live streams are presently available if you wish to watch:
- Labpadre’s 24/7 live stream, with eight other cameras also available
- NASASpaceFlight’s live stream
When SpaceX adds its own live stream I will embed it below.
The screen capture on the right shows the status for the launch in that left column. When I captured the image they had only closed the road, which means the launch is still probably two hours away, at the least.
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Screen capture from LabPadre Nerdle camera live stream,
taken at 10:27 am (Central).
UPDATE: Launch scrubbed because an FAA official was unable to get to the launch site today. Next attempt set for tomorrow.
Gee, launching rockets his hard. For government officials, however, getting on an airplane and arriving on time seems far more difficult.
Original post:
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SpaceX is going to make another launch attempt today with its eleventh Starship prototype. The following live streams are presently available if you wish to watch:
- Labpadre’s 24/7 live stream, with eight other cameras also available
- NASASpaceFlight’s live stream
When SpaceX adds its own live stream I will embed it below.
The screen capture on the right shows the status for the launch in that left column. When I captured the image they had only closed the road, which means the launch is still probably two hours away, at the least.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
LabPadre is showing it scrubbed for today. Gusts at 25mph have something to do with it?
Scrubbed for today. According to Elon on Twitter:
“FAA inspector unable to reach Starbase in time for launch today. Postponed to no earlier than tomorrow.”
Incompetence or political pressure?
V-Man,
Don’t you know? It is a Monday. The same goes for Fridays as well.
Scrubbed, because the FAA inspector did not arrive on time. Too bad you can’t charge the FAA for all the lost time and money..
“You Keystone Kops held up the test. That has a cost. This is the bill.” No, I don’t suppose that will work.
What’s next, “I slept in”?
“That’s a nice space program you got there Elon, it would be a shame if something happened to it.”
Monumental incompetence on someone’s part.
And an FAA inspector needs to be there, why? Maybe he didn’t have his mask for the plane trip.
The requirement that an official of the FAA be on site is a very recent thing, added after SN 10 flew. May be part of the ongoing response to SN8 flying without “permission”.
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/licenses_permits/media/License%20and%20Orders%20SpaceX%20LRLO%2020-119%20Starship%20Prototype%202021-03-12%20web.pdf
In any case, more useless bureaucratic nonsense. As if, in this pervasively digital world of instant imagery and video, and real-time data streams, anyone ever needed to physically be anywhere. What century are we in? lol
Christian Davenport describes it succinctly on twitter:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=53270.msg2212823#msg2212823
Trent: Correct. SpaceX exceeded the blast overpressure limits on the SN8 flight. They had applied for a waiver, were denied, but flew anyway. SpaceX claimed it was a miscommunication, not an intentional violation. Anyone else would have been shut down for a month while the FAA investigated, but since it was SpaceX, the FAA instead sent an official on-site for test flights so there wouldn’t be any more miscommunications. Far from an example of the FAA trying to shut SpaceX down, it’s actually an example of how SpaceX gets treated better than most companies.
In this case SpaceX had told the official on Friday that they would not fly on Monday, so the official flew home for the weekend. SpaceX changed their mind over the weekend and then publicly criticized the FAA when the official couldn’t drop everything and book a flight Sunday night to be there Monday morning.
Now that SN11 has exploded and rained debris down on Boca Chica Village and South Padre Island, expect the limits to be tightened even more. Anyone else would be shut down while the FAA investigated, but since it’s SpaceX, who knows?
This is a fact because this is also trending.
Why robot is asking me if I am sending comments too fast. My typing speed is too fast.